Rookie cops shoots 14-year-old Shaaliver Douse dead after teen shot at fleeing man and refused to drop his gun in South Bronx

Any 14 year old kid out at 3 am with a $375 gun is up to no good!

New York Post reports police shot and killed an armed teen in the South Bronx early today after the suspect chased and shot at another man, then refused to drop his gun, police said.

Two rookie cops heard shots fired near East 151st Street and Courtlandt Avenue around 3 a.m. and ran in the direction of fire, police said. The uniformed officers saw Shaaliver Douse, 14, of the South Bronx, chasing another person through the streets, according to cops.

Douse, who was arrested in May on attempted murder charges for shooting a 15-year-old, fired at the man running on East 151st Street this morning, police said.

Two rookie cops, assigned to the high-crime area on an Impact team, just months after graduating police academy, identified themselves as police officers and told Douse to drop the gun, according to an NYPD statement..

Douse refused and one of the officers fired one round, striking the gunman in the jaw, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators recovered a blood-spattered Astra A 100 9mm semi-automatic handgun at the scene, cops said.

No one else was injured, according to police.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly dismissed suggestions that the cops should have wounded the boy instead of killing him.

“You shoot to stop. You can’t shoot to wound. That only happens in Western movies,” Kelly said at a press conference at NYPD headquarters.

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14 year boys should be home asleep, not running the streets endangering people’s lives!